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Yang Fudong 楊福東
City Light 城市之光
2000
Yang Fudong’s City Light follows a young man and his double in a condensed detective story in Shanghai. Switching between black-and-white and colour, and soundtracks of traditional Chinese music and bossa nova, the work conjures a sense of estrangement, as well as a series of references to twentieth-century avant-garde film and film noir.
Yang’s moving image works can be characterised by their open-ended, existential narratives that interweave quotidian rituals with dream states. With a consciously romantic framework that is both contemporary and out of time, Yang examines China through the eyes of young urban intellectuals as they grapple with their place in the modern world. He updates traditional narratives and settings to explore the ways in which the turmoil of the recent past, and the uncertainty of the future, might be understood.
Yang’s moving image works can be characterised by their open-ended, existential narratives that interweave quotidian rituals with dream states. With a consciously romantic framework that is both contemporary and out of time, Yang examines China through the eyes of young urban intellectuals as they grapple with their place in the modern world. He updates traditional narratives and settings to explore the ways in which the turmoil of the recent past, and the uncertainty of the future, might be understood.
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